Have you ever listened to a favorite symphony or concerto and wondered what life experiences and inspiration shaped the composer’s ideas, how the orchestra players reacted upon first reading the new score or how the composer felt as musicians finally gave sonic life to notes on paper?
When you commission a new work of music through LACO’s Sound Investment program, you can get your own answers, straight from the artist’s mouth.
Each season, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra commissions and premieres a new piece of music composed especially to suit its unparalleled musical talents. Creating a legacy in music, members of Sound Investment each contribute $250 (or more) toward the composer’s fee and costs of the premiere concerts. As an “investor,” you and a guest will be invited to a series of intimate salons where you can meet the composer, hear excerpts of the score-in-progress and attend a full orchestral rehearsal of the completed work. Along the way, you’ll gain an insider’s view of the creative process through lively and thought-provoking conversations with the composer. Membership also includes a pair of tickets to a premiere performance of the work you helped create.
about the composer
Hailed as “an unusually skilled, communicative composer” by the Baltimore Sun, Christopher Theofanidis was awarded the BBC Masterprize in 2003 for his tone poem Rainbow Body, which has gone on to become the most frequently performed orchestral work by a living composer. He has been awarded the 2008-09 Sound Investment commission by Jeffrey Kahane, who was attracted to the composer’s “incredible ear for color.” In addition to the Masterprize, Theofanidis has received the Barlow Prize, the Rome Prize in Musical Composition and a Fulbright Fellowship. A faculty member of the Peabody Institute, he has had works commissioned or premiered by the American Ballet Theater, Houston Grand Opera, and the London, Houston, Atlanta and National symphonies, among many others.
concert info
Christopher Theofanidis’ Radiant Mind will be performed Saturday May 16, 2009 at the Alex Theatre and Sunday May 17, 2009 at Royce Hall. More Information.
salon info
Each Sound Investment member (and a guest) is invited to participate in three interactive salons throughout the 2008-09 season:
November 11, 2008 – 7 pm, West Los Angeles
March 10, 2009 – 7 pm, Mt. Washington
May 14, 2009 – 7 pm, Downtown
contact info
Contact Michelle Weger, director of institutional giving, at 213 622 7001 × 203 or michelleweger@laco.org for more information about joining Sound Investment.
